What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books